CLUBS
LIBRARY RESOURCES
Free resources are also available with a library card. “The
library offers online access to Ancestry and HeritageQuest to
help with researching your family tree,” said Linda Clobes of
the Fort Pierce Branch Library during a recent club meeting.
“We collaborate with volunteers from Treasure Coast
Genealogical Society, who offer support to individuals in the
library’s genealogy section three days a week. They guide
people on how to access genealogical websites and use the
genealogy reference books.”
“Fort Wayne, Ind., has the largest genealogical resources
in the world,” Fodi said, “and from the library, you can send
for all kinds of records, including military, Revolutionary War
and slave records — and it has a huge library of online books.
Say you want to access the name Fodi in genealogy books
— it will bring up every book with that name. Type in your
town or another wild card to narrow the search and it will
bring up every reference to Fodi, so you can open that book
and read the pertinent pages online.”
The website Newspapers is another free resource available
through the library. Search for a news article, wedding or
obituary by typing in what you know — date, name or town
— and the program searches newspapers to find the records.
Both Giltman and Fodi enjoy helping people pursue their
ancestral histories and say the cost is a bargain compared to
most hobbies. FamilyTree software synchronizes information
collected on Ancestry and composes it in a narrative, like a genealogy
book, so the information can be distributed to other
family members.
“Reuniting with family is the happiest moment,” Giltman
said. “Family is sacred. I think this makes us gentler toward
“
Ask your parents
and family members
questions or you will
lose out on important
knowledge.
— Flo Giltman
”
family. Understanding who they were. I started because my
father had a large family in Europe, but because nobody
wanted to burden the children with their past political tyranny,
it was disjointed. Genealogy helped me clarify relationships
in the family.”
“For me, the sad thing is some of the relatives I found were
deceased before I could have known them,” Fodi said. “But
my sister is coming to visit and I’ll meet her for the first time.
Life is such that you can look at things from the negative or the
positive point of view. Not everything you find is going to be
hunky-dory. But accept that this is life and it can be exciting.” E
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